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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow">Here is a message from the wildlifeontario
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=shadowsteele200120012001@yahoo.ca
href="mailto:shadowsteele200120012001@yahoo.ca">LINDA STEELE</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=wildlifeontario@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:wildlifeontario@yahoogroups.com">wildlifeontario@yahoogroups.com</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:27 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [wildlifeontario] Letter submitted to Ottawa Citizen today
in defense of Bardot's animal welfare work</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">As I suspected
would happen, a couple of letters were published today regarding why doesn't
Bardot complain about bull fighting and abbatoirs, etc. so I sent this letter in
response. </B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"><B
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Re: “Bardot’s
outrage is</B> <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">selective” </B>and “<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Abattoir
Realities”<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">letters published <st1:date Year="2006" Day="26"
Month="3">Sunday, March 26, 2006</st1:date></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Brigitte Bardot cares and campaigns for animals worldwide
not only seal pups <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></B></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Perhaps to most Canadians Brigitte Bardot is only famous
for bringing attention to the killing of Canadian seal pups. However, lesser
known but equally important is that Bardot, along with her Brigitte Bardot
Foundation, is well respected internationally and since 1986 has been
campaigning vigorously on numerous animal welfare issues around the world
including bull fighting in France and Spain. In 1962, well before she drew
worldwide attention to the slaughter of Canadian baby seals, Brigitte Bardot was
the first public figure to denounce the cruel methods of killing used in
slaughterhouses in
<st1:country-region><st1:place>France</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This led
to the introduction of more humane methods.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Her Foundation also works directly in the field providing
such services as animal rescues, and cat and dog sterilization campaigns, For
example, in 1998, the Foundation set up a mobile veterinary clinic and currently
runs a large campaign for the sterilization of stray dogs in <st1:place>Eastern
Europe</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>The Foundation also created a sanctuary for former “Dancing Bears” in
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Bulgaria</st1:place></st1:country-region>—bears
that had been trained to so call “dance” by having the soles of their feet
repeatedly burned. In 2002 the Foundation also won the battle against the
“dancing” bear tradition in
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Bulgaria</st1:place></st1:country-region> as the
Bulgarian Parliament passed a law that prohibits anyone to hunt, sell, buy or
exhibit a brown bear in front of a paying audience. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Bardot is not selective in her outrage against animal abuse. In fact,
Brigitte Bardot is one of the world’s leading animal welfare activists and I am
grateful that she took the time to visit
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> to once
again to help shine the spotlight on
<st1:country-region><st1:place>Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s cruel
and disgraceful baby seal slaughter. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>L. Steele</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><st1:City><st1:place><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ottawa</FONT></st1:place></st1:City></DIV>
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